Sentence examples for no real base from inspiring English sources
The European Union's chief trade official, Karel De Gucht, said in a visit to Beijing this week that the rules had "no real base in reality," and urged the Beijing government to overhaul them.
Saprang is more vocal, but he has no real base.
Fayyad is undoubtedly a man of decency — a constructive force in every sense of the word — but he has no real political base at home; his base is international far more than it is domestic, something he quietly admits.
But unlike Lady Thatcher, who also financed a foundation by making transatlantic speaking tours, he has no real political base there.
Conservatives once had a real base in places such as Sheffield and Manchester: they no longer have a single councillor in either city.
The prime minister has no real power base, being appointed by the president and approved by Parliament.
Before becoming president, Hadi had no real power base in Yemen and without strong international backing – especially from the US – he would be unlikely to survive for long.
It has no real power base among the institutions that have always mattered in Egypt — the military, the security services, the judicial system, the media.
Kadima is split, has no real political base or ideology, and corruption scandals threaten to engulf Mr Olmert and his finance minister.
The group that he led, until then relatively marginal with no real support base and only a few hundred members, was portrayed as a sprawling global terrorist organisation, with obedient "operatives" and "sleeper cells" on every continent, and an ability to mobilise, radicalise and attack far beyond its real capacities.
